Taylor Swift is a modern-day poet who puts her poetry to music. And it turns out she is not the only poet in her family.
Ancestry.com found she and Emily Dickinson are sixth cousins, three times removed.
Ancestry.com told Today, “Swift and Dickinson both descend from a 17th-century English immigrant (Swift’s 9th great-grandfather and Dickinson’s 6th great-grandfather who was an early settler of Windsor, Connecticut).”
And now we know where Swift got her writing skills from, it is from her 9th great-grandfather.
However, we don’t know if Swift knows that she is related to the legendary poet. But she has referenced Dickinson many times throughout her career. Maybe it was Dickinson reaching out to her cousin from the great beyond.
